Node.js & Express: Need to redirect to specific pages based on POST values (using MongoDB)

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Node.js & Express: Need to redirect to specific pages based on POST values (using MongoDB)

I am creating a blog with Node, Express and MongoDB. I'm using Mongoose to connect to MongoDB.

I have a create new post form that creates and saves new posts in MongoDB just fine.

When creating a post you can mark the post as published or leave that option unchecked. When you save the post I want you to either:

A) Be redirected to the home page if the post was published, or B) be redirected to the post's edit/update page if the post was not marked to be published.

Here's the code in the view that I'm trying to use to accomplish the above:

addPost: function(req, res) {
  return new Post(req.body.post).save(function() {
    if (req.body.published === true) {
      return res.redirect("/");
    } else {
      return res.redirect("/office/post/" + [NEED OBJECT ID HERE] + "/edit");
    }
  });
}

This is the corresponding view that sends the POST data:

form.web-form(method="post", action="/post/new")
  fieldset.fieldset
    label.form-label(for="title") Title
    input.text-input(id="title", type="text", name="post[title]", placeholder="Post title")

    input.text-input(id="alias", type="hidden", name="post[alias]")

    label.form-label(for="subhead") Subhead
    input.text-input(id="subhead", type="text", name="post[subhead]", placeholder="Post subhead")

    label.form-label(for="preview") Preview
    textarea.text-area(id="preview", name="post[preview]", rows="4", placeholder="Preview")

    label.form-label(for="post-body") Body
    textarea.text-area(id="post-body", name="post[body]", rows="5", placeholder="Main content")

    input.check-box(onclick="changeButton()", id="published", type="checkbox", name="post[published]")
    label.inline-label(for="published") Publish

    input.btn-submit(id="submit-post", type="submit", value="Save!")

    a.btn-cancel(href="/") Cancel

Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!

node.js
mongodb
express
mongoose

Answer 1

Like this?

addPost: function(req, res) {
  // strip 'post[' and ']' from submitted parameters
  var params = {};
  for (var k in req.body)
  {
    params[k.substring(5, k.length - 1)] = req.body[k];
  };
  var post = new Post(params);
  return post.save(function() {
    if (params.published === true) {
      return res.redirect("/");
    } else {
      return res.redirect("/office/post/" + post._id + "/edit");
    }
  });
}